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Winter

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Land

Use

Planning

and

Water

Quality

in

North

Carolina

Sprawl

in

Denver

Recent

Trends

in

Manufactured

Home

Zoning

Law

Housing

Regulatory

Costs:

Who

Pays

in

the

End?

Revolving

Loan

Funds

in

North

Carolina

Carolina

Planning

the

planning

journal

of

thesoutheast

Winter

1999

vol. 24, no. 1

CP

Notes

Upcoming

conferences;

web

sites

Planners

Digest

The

Spring

1999

Urban

Livability

Symposium

atthe University

of

North

Carolinaat

Chapel

Hill

Articles

Revolving

Loan

Funds

in

North

CaroUna

Matt

Hull

and

CarlRist

Manufactured

Housing Zoning

BradlyS.

Torgan

19

Making

the

Land

Use-

Water QuaUty Connection

Sara Hinkley

and

Edward

J. Kaiser

Regulatory

Costs:

Who

Pays

inthe

End?

Michael

Luger

and

Kenneth

Temkin

29

41

Reining

in

Denver's

Sprawl

Marie Venner

51

Master's

Projects

Master's Projects hst,

1998

Department

of Cityand Regional Planning, UniversityofNorth Carolina-Chapel Hill

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CarolinaPlanningis a student-run publication oftheDepartmentof City

and

RegionalPlanning,

From

the Editors:

This Carolina Planning includes avariety of articles that present the viewpoint ofboth practicing planners

and academics. This issue contains discussion of

more

recent topics such as regional growth

management

and zoning formanufacturedhousing; in addition,

new

perspectives

on

existing issues such as

housing regulations and water quality are also

presented.

The

articles reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the planning field, encompassing topics

such as law, public policy, and housing finance.

We

will continue to

make

Carolina Planning a

forum

for

such diverse discussion.

The

new

style introduced in the last issue has been

furtherupdated, and

we

have

improved CP's

layoutto

make

it clearer and

more

readable.

CP

Notes

continues to provide Internet resources

and

sites of

interest for planners, in addition to information

on

upcoming

conferences and events. Planner's Digest has been reintroduced in order to allow shorter

treatment of planning issues and events. This issue's

Planner's Digest covers the 1999

Weiss

Urban

Livability

Symposium

takingplace thisspring.

We

hope

you

enjoy this issue, and as always,

we

welcome

any articles, reviews, interviews,

and

news

items for our

summer

issue, as well as general letters

or

comments

concerningourpublication.

Philip

Hervey

Jessica

LeVeen

Laurence

Lewis

CarolineWells Editors PhilipHervey Jessica

LeVeen

LaurenceLewis CarolineWells

CarolinaPlanningispublished twice ayearwithgenerous

financialsupport from:

TheJohnA. ParkerTrust

Fund

TheDepartmentofCityand

Regional Planning

•:• The North Carolina Chapter

oftheAmericanPlanning

Association

TheDepartmentofCity

and

Regional PlanningAlumni

Association

Subscriptions:Annualratesare: Individuals-$12; Instituions-$20;

Studentsand

APA

members-$10;

Back

issues, including

postage-$8.

CarolinaPlanningwelcomes comments, suggestionsand

submissions.Mailto: CarolinaPlanning

UNC-Chapel

Hill CB#3140,

New

East

ChapelHill,

NC

27599-3140

Phone: (919)962-4783

E-mail:carplan@unc.edu

TheeditorswishtothankDavid

Godschalk andLila Berry.

CoverImage: Riverbasinsof

NorthCarolina.

©1999

Departmentof Cityand Regional Planning

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UNC

Printing Services

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NOTES

Articles

on

the

Web

Western

Architecture in

Arab

Cities.

The

Christian Science Monitor examines the

influence of western architecture on Arab cities in "For better and worse, Arab cities try on a

Westernlook."The article,forexample, laments

the appearance of Beirut as it rebuilds from a

lengthy civil war: "a drab, cement-box style of

architecture, along with overpopulation, noise

andpollution."

http://www.csmonitor.com/ durable/1999/0iy05/p7sl.htm

^

_Newspaper

series

on

growth, sprawl.

Sev-eral newspapers have publishedon-line versions of in-depth series examining issues such as

sprawl-inducinghighways, preservation ofopen

space.

The Washington Postseries,"Green,

More

or

Less: Washington's Vanishing

Open

Space,"can be foundat:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/ local/longterm/library/growth/front.htm

The (Portland) Oregonian's series, "Legacy

on the Line" examines growth management ef-fortstopreserve millions ofacresof farmland.

http://www.oregonIive.coni/

special/issues/growth.html

The (Raleigh, N.C.)

News

&

Observerhasan

an-line version of its series, "Driving Forces. Urban Sprawl inthe Triangle."

http

://search.news-observer.com/plweb-cgi/nao_search.cgi

The Las Vegas Review-JoumaPs series

"Does Growth Pay for Growth?" can be found at:

http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/in-depth/packages/growtli/index.html

The

Denver Post has published a series called"Growthinthe '90s."

http://wvrw.denverpost.com/

news/gro0207a.htm

The

DenverPost's "Reclaimingthe Rockies"

seriesranin 1997.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/mtn/

mtn.htm

Conferences

1999

APA

National Planning Conference.

The

American Planning Association's 1999

na-tional conference will be in Seattle April 24 to

28. The conferencewillofferapproximately200

sessions and85 mobile workshops. Thedeadline

for early registration and student volunteer

ap-plicationspassedinearlyFebruary.

Important dates to remember include

March

3, the regular registration deadline;

March

10, the deadline for hotel reservations

made

through the

APA;

March

24, the Seattle Tourregistration deadline.

The cost is $110 for

APA

members

regis-tered by

March

3; $130 ifregisteredby April 5.

The cost for

Non-APA

members: $580 by

March

3,$620 byApril5. Forinformation:

http://www,plaiming.org/

coiifereii/98indx.htm

^ National

Town

Meeting fora Sustainable

America. The President's Council on

Sustain-able Development is sponsoring a conference, a

National

Town

Meeting for a Sustainable

America,

May

2 to5 inDetroit. Forinformation through the mail, the address is: The President's

Council on Sustainable Development, 730 Jack-son Place

NW,

Washington,

DC

20503. The or-ganization's phone number is: (202) 408-5296.

Orsimplyaccessthe

web

site:

http ://www.sustainableamerica.org.

Job

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search. Hereisasamplingof

web

sites:

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The AmericanPlanning Association:

http://www.planning.org/jobs/

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ConsultantSearch:

http://www.planning.org/ switchbd/directry.htm

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Government:

http://www.govtjobs.com/

http://www.jobsingovernment.coni/

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Nonprofit:

http://www.nonprofitcareer.com/

http://wvrw.idealist.org

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http://www.geocities.com/CoUegePark/

7442/jobs.htnil

http ://www.arch.buffalo.edu/pairc/

wwwboard_planningJob_Ustings.html